So how's all this playing out? Court action likely to fail? Brexit, deep UK depression. Domino into Europe. Russia takes East Ukraine. Informal US/AU alliance as they back away from EU. NZ shifts towards the China dominated Pacific, the region being the linchpin in the power balance between US & China. Biblical levels of suffering in Yemen (still.) Ultimately unpredictable weather events prompting unprecedented population shifts across the globe that make the whole nation-state paradigm untenable.

Boris is as cunning as he is slimy. Trying to abdicate responsibility to the EU by sending the formal letter unsigned and his own saying it would be bad for everyone if they acquiesced (to the UK's request to postpone a hard exit.)